Subject: ADS-L Digest - 31 Jul 1997 to 1 Aug 1997
There are 3 messages totalling 103 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. good story re /mVt/(fwd)
 2. "Surcee"; "Surcey"; "Surcy"
 3. Fw: circe, sirsee

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Date:  Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:24:40 -0400
From:  "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
Subject: good story re /mVt/(fwd)

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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:03:11 -0700
From: Alan Harrison <j9470388[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]wlv.ac.uk>

> Which reminds me of the tale of the man walking down the canal bank (the
> cut-bonk in the vernacular), when he sees a child crying (blartin' in
> the vernacular). Says the would-be Good Samaritan, "Why'm yoh blartin',
> son?"
>
> The child responds, "Me mate's fell in the cut." At this, our hero tears
> off his jacket and boots and dives into the not exactly limpid waters of
> the Birmingham Canal Navigation. He finds the usual stuff, old bike
> frames, dead dogs, etcetera, but no drowning child. Coming up,
> spluttering, he asks, "Wheer exackly did 'e fall in the cut?" At this
> point the penny drops with the child, who has stopped crying and is
> gazing at the rescuer in amazement: "Naow, mate, not that sort o' mate -
> the mate off me sandwich."
>
> Alan Harrison